Oracle applications global user experience (UX). Topics for globally-savvy UX people, so that it all fits together for Oracle's worldwide customers.

Monday Jun 01, 2015

In case you were in any doubt, the recent Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) events in Singapore and Beijing serve as a timely reminder that our PaaS4SaaS UX enablement for Oracle Partners is global.

Our toolkit is internationalized (taking advantage of those Javai18n features and the best of Unicode) and supports translation and localization requirements for different countries and regions worldwide.

The Oracle Applications User Experience PaaS4SaaS enablement for partners is based on the simplified UI rapid development kit approach. Oracle Applications Cloud partners in Beijing and Singapore saw a simplified UI deployed live to an Oracle Java Cloud Service-SaaS Extension service. Try the kit yourself here.

A really great read and a reminder that an awesome UX must be local and contextual. It's a practical example of importance of ethnography as a basis for empathizing with user requirements, and how simple everyday observation can offer many insights for designers and developers of global apps. In this case, Dan took advantage of a relocation from San Francisco to China to observe, document and share his insights.

Dan includes some great visual examples to illustrate the trends. I love the sections on how discovery is the new hamburger menu and how chat is a universal UI.
And you thought QR codes were dead?

Oracle Applications Cloud Release 9 is available in 23 national languages, including Traditional Chinese (ZHT) and Simplified Chinese (ZHS), by the way.

And, in keeping with the inspiration for the article, Dan's article is now available in Chinese too: 中国移动应用设计趋势解读

Thursday May 22, 2014

I demoed the Hebrew language version of Oracle Sales Cloud Release 8live in Israel recently, and the crowd was yet again wowed by the simplified UI (SUI).

I’ve now spent some time playing around with most of the 23 languages, the NLS (Natural Language Support) versions, as we’d call them, available in Release 8.

Hebrew Oracle Sales Cloud Release 8

The simplified UI is built using 100% Oracle ADF. The framework is a great solution for developers to productively build tablet-first, mobility-driven apps for users who work in natural languages other than English.

Oracle ADF’s internationalization (i18n) support leverages Java and Unicode and also packs more i18n goodness such as Bi-Di (or bi-directional) flipping of pages, locale-enabled resource bundles, date and time support, and so on.

Comparing Spanish (left) and Hebrew Bi-Di (right) page components in the simplified UI. Note the change in the direction of the arrows and alignment of the text.

So, developers don’t have to do anything special with regard to ADF components thanks to this baked-in UX Feng Shui, as Grant Ronald of the ADF team would say to the UK Oracle User Group.